Monday 4th January 2016 - Run-Through Of Movement

Prologue
     We ran through the prologue to clean the choreographed sections of this, this is because this scene is the opening to the show and therefore as it introduces the characters to the audience. This is the introduction to rivalry between the two gangs and therefore we need to successfully build up the tension so the audience can understand the friction between the Sharks and the Jets. In our rehearsal of this today, i thought that we did this really well, the more we rehearse this number i think it becomes more interesting.  When we went into the next section where we have to use stage combat to show the relationship between the two gangs. Mine and Abi's stage fight is improving as the rehearsals go by, this is because we have choreographed exactly what we are going to do, this is so we do not injure ourselves or each other, also so that we know our spacing to make sure we do not move into the audience or another pair.

Gym Dance
     When rehearsing this i thought that the first section went really well, this is the bit when we are dancing with our partners, everyone is doing the same thing. This is because we have spent a lot of time making sure that our timing, spacing and accuracy of movement is all correct so that it can be performed successfully in the final performance. Me and Phoebe have worked together on the movement so that we can perform our partner work well, because of this i think that we have improved a lot since the first rehearsals. Personally i think the main section that needs to be practiced is when the Sharks are competing with the Jets, i feel like i am unsure of some of the movement material. To change this i am going to work with Phoebe so that we can improve our performance, before the next rehearsal we are going to rehearse so that we can get all of the movement. 

America
     In this rehearsal we had to add other people into the dance, this is because we were supposed to have five girls and five guys, this meant that we had to split into two so that me and Max could teach the rest of the boys and Amber, Phoebe and Jess could teach the rest of the girls. This has helped us develop this number as we have been able to pay more attention to detail, as we have been able to split into smaller groups and work on smaller sections rather than just an overview of the whole dance. After rehearsing we performed it to the rest of the class, I thought this went really well as we have all developed our characterisation and the personality of our parts really well and this has helped us perform this better.